B&W Photography Revival 4 - “Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.”

Monochrome Photography

B&W Photography Revival 4 

“Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.” 

– Samuel Fuller

Dr Abe V Rotor

Home Garden 

 My Late Son, Pao and his Yaya, Conching  

Lagro QC

This is a patch of Eden,

the work of Grimm's Seven*,

a shade in the lost Garden

and a li'l corner of Heaven.

Fish play in the pond,

Crucifers grow on sand,

and tomatoes line the bund,

while vine reach for the sun.

- AV Rotor 1994

* "The Seven Ravens" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm. 

It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451, commonly found throughout Europe. 

Other variants of the Aarne–Thompson type include The Six Swans, 

The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The Wild Swans, 

and The Twelve Brothers. Wikipedia

“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape 

that color never can.” – Jack Antonoff

Old Carillon

Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur

Your bells in the distance are a chime,

Music on the wind, reminder of time,

Calling the lost lambs from across the sea,

And linking your host in the Holy See.

“Black and white are the colours of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” – Robert Frank

Hull and Outrigger

UST Biological Station

Palauig, Zambales

Someone invented your hull. 

Another your outrigger

Which comes one-sided

Or in winglike pair.

Your hull slices the water

While your arm rides on the crest.

In duo you conquer 

The river and the sea,

Linking the islands in chain 

Since the time of the Odyssey.

“Black and white does more to evoke an emotion 

and freeze a moment in time.” – Kyle Anstey

The "Tablon" Sawers*

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

If Millet were to paint this scenario,

In the masterpiece of "Man with a Hoe";

If Markham puts meaning in these duo,

Then life is a see-saw, see-saw, see-saw.

* Age old way of cutting lumber into broad planks

locally called "tablon".  San Vicente is well known

for furniture making.

To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black 

and white is a delight for the soul” – Andri Cauldwell

Danajon Reef

Western Coast of Bohol

Far, far away by boat, 

away from drudgery

at the other side of a moat

is this blue, blue sea -

a Shangri-La to soothe scars,

where in quiet reminiscence

the corals and stars

twinkle in cadence,

where the sky meets the sea,

the cloud rises from the water,

and fishes sail to the sky.

And I? Oh, 

I'm but a foreign matter.

“Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that colour never can.” – Jack Antonoff ~